GF, QI, dad, V

Temporary result of my "Who is Guy Fawkes" family survey
People asked: 3 (out of 4)
People who knew Guy Fawkes: 0 (out of 3)

Oh my. Guess we're Germans after all O_O

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Well, I was wondering what Gordon Deitrich Stephen Fry is up to these days. So I grabbed the newest episode of QI.
And needless to say, me liked it. A lot.
Okay, I had NO IDEA who the candidates were, but I guess that would be no diifferent if someone from the UK would watch one of OUR shows.
Right now, I'm of course trying to get more. I even managed to sign up at Demonoid to get older torrents!

Speaking of downloads, Marykirspinning session.
He had read the text on the V for Vendetta DVD a bit earlier.

Dad: "When's the show starting?"
Me: "... of what?"
Dad: "That" *points to DVD*
Me: "About 6 PM?"
Dad: "Well, I won't be back home at that point"
Me: "Why?"
Dad: "Might've taken a look at it too"
Me: "Wha...?" *starts freaking out*
Dad: "Don't worry, it's OK" *leaves*
Me: "... fuck."

Dammit! He's interested in the movie! This is A RARE THING! I have an organizational problem right now. Crap crap crappity crap!!!
*flails and runs restelssly around the house*
*takes deep breath and sits back down to THINK*

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BTW, V icon #3. Made by me while I was in a particularly pathetic mood. Sowwy for that ;)

Racist DVD ripping? Or am I just too lazy to make up a witty title?

Yesterday, Yama called me a racist.
And I completely agreed.
Why? Well, we were talking about dubs and original versions.
And when it comes to those, it almost makes me happy to be called that.
Totally.
That's also why I will certainly not be joining mum and her sister to watch "Borat" next week. Because it will be the dubbed version.
And since ti looks like there's no way to watch the original or subbed version, waiting half a year to get the DVD seems to be the only option *theatrical sigh*

Something else:
Does anyone have some experience with ripping full movies from DVDs?
What program(s) is/are good? How long does it take?, etc.
Background: My V DVD is not running evenly and might get destroved at some point, damaging the drive as well.
I noticed it when my laptop was vibrating awfully much while playing it. I even compared it to one of the House ones to make sure. Call it geeky thoroughness if you wish.
Anyhow.
So I, in order to save my precious favourite film, I have to rip it.
There. The not quite self-proclaimed Queen Of Geeks is once in a lifetime asking for help.
Scary, huh?
However, if there's no answer, I shall research and find out about the stuff myself.
But I thought I might try the lazy way first ^_~